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Ben’s (Failed) Gimmick CD (A Rant)
Oddity Archive - S0 - E304
The OA soundtrack album was SUPPOSED to be the most tricked-out CD of all time…of course, things didn’t pan out. And, yes, this may very well be the geekiest, most jargon-heavy discussion I’ve ever given.
Oddity Archive: Season 0 - 51 Episode s
0x254 - Christmas Morning on a June Evening (or, Mail Day From Tyrone)
June 22, 2023
Hope you have your June tree up (ideally, something deciduous), 'cause we're about to celebrate Christmas in June.
0x255 - Archive Thrifting #24: The Delicate Sound of Thrifting
July 6, 2023
Some things don’t come easy…like the first thrifting video of 2023 (more than halfway into the year, no less).
0x256 - Ben's Junk: X-10 Videosender (another VCR Rabbit-esque device)
July 13, 2023
Coming right at the end of the usefulness for something like this. Let’s see if it’s too little, too late…or right on time.
0x257 - Revenge of the Sony AV-3600 Videocorder (1st Test)
July 20, 2023
Some people’s sinuses come back from Arizona…my AV-3600 came back from Arizona—arguably the same headache.
0x258 - Archive Thrifting #25: 3M (Moderate Minnesota Madness)
August 10, 2023
Celebrating the 25th OA Thrifting video by doing one in Minnesohta, doan ‘cha know?
0x259 - Fix It or Forget It? (NEC S-VHS Deck)
August 10, 2023
It’s everybody’s favorite new (not quite) nerdy game show…Fix It or Forget It!!!
0x260 - Ben's Junk: 1966 (partial) Zenith Phonevision Pay TV Box
August 24, 2023
The Archive phones it in…phoneVISION, that is.
0x261 - Ben's Junk: SelecTV Pay TV Box
September 7, 2023
Oddity Archive®: Only for the most SelecTiVe viewers!
0x262 - Ben's Junk: ClonerAlliance ViewLite AV (Video Capture Device)
September 21, 2023
A little device with a lot of potential…but does it live up to it?
0x263 - Ben's Junk: Sears Du-All Eight (8mm Viewer/Editor)
October 5, 2023
Well, it does du all, I’ll give it that…
0x264 - Archive Thrifting #26: Indian Summer
October 12, 2023
Dragging out the Summer a little longer…whether you like it or not.
0x265 - Ben's Junk: Sharp VL-E47 "Viewcam" (Video8 Camcorder, circa 1995)
November 30, 2023
Oddity Archive®: Now in glorious Hi-Fi Mono!
0x266 - Archive Thrifting #28: Scandalous Santa
December 14, 2023
Just hear those cash tills jing-a-ling’—ring-ting-tinga-ling…
0x267 - Archive Thrifting #29 (Christmas Leftovers)
December 28, 2023
From that part of the Archive that’s a bit like that old take-out in the back of your fridge…that you forgot about.
0x268 - Ben's Junk: Ben's Rifftrax DVD & Blu-Ray Collection
January 4, 2024
Looking at the Rifftrax collection…with only minimal snark…which may very well go against the laws of riff comedy.
0x269 - Ben's Junk: Denon RCD-N10 CD Receiver
January 18, 2024
…because Benny-boy apparently goes through mini stereos like (insert absurdly famous pop star) goes through boyfriends.
0x270 - Ben's Junk: Magnavox H2160MW9 (or, Exploring Someone's Old Personal DVR)
January 25, 2024
The tech geek equivalent of rummaging through someone’s medicine cabinet…
0x271 - Ben's Junk: Wometco Home Theatre (WHT) Pay TV Decoder Box
February 15, 2024
Archiveco Home Theatre®: Now serving Lawn Guyland & New Joisey!
0x272 - Ben’s Junk: ClearClick Video2USB/ A Tour of Ben’s Livestream Setup
February 22, 2024
Some livestreamers run PC games…Benny-boy likes to run Betamax tapes.
0x273 - How To Unstretch Video (via HandBrake)
February 29, 2024
For us old fartknockers that haven’t yet warmed up to stretch-o-vision…
0x274 - Ben's Junk: Laser Video File Laserdisc Catalog (Mid-1992)
March 14, 2024
Thumbing through the catalog of the hottest new video format (by OA standards).
0x275 - Ben's Junk: Some More of Ben's Audiocassette Collection (Mystery Box!)
March 21, 2024
Come on down to Crazy Benny’s for…a bunch of audiocassettes that you probably don’t care about.
0x276 - Magnavox H2160MW9 Personal DVR/DVD Recorder UPDATE (A Failure)
March 28, 2024
Trying to bulk dump the contents of the DVR. Here’s how NOT* to do it… *No Hard Drives were harmed in the making of this episode. It was reinstalled and all material is still 100% intact.
0x277 - Ben's Junk: Videolok (VCR Anti-Theft Device)
April 11, 2024
Inconvenience and mildly annoy those evil VCR thieves with the Videolok!
0x278 - Ben's Junk: Rhoades Teledapter (TV Stereo Simulator)
April 18, 2024
Don’t wanna wait for Stereo TV’s to be invented? Here ya go!
0x279 - Windows 98 Laptop Update (4/2024)
April 25, 2024
The saga continues. On and on…and on…and on…
0x280 - CD Rot Rant
May 9, 2024
Benny-boy’s (non-accredited) Physical Media Studies class is now in session!
0x281 - Ben A.'s Mystery Tapes (A Not-So-Livestream)
May 16, 2024
An unintentional episode of Oddity Archive…After Dark…in the most literal sense.
0x282 - Windows 98 Laptop Update (5/2024) (She Lives!)
May 23, 2024
Ben christens his newly-functional laptop…by playing a little Slim Whitman.
0x283 - Ben's Junk: Whole House FM Transmitter 3.0
June 20, 2024
Ben’s 3(.0)rd attempt at FM, Part 15-legal microbroadcasting! Let’s see if it’s the charm…
0x284 - Ben Vs. The Cursed U-Matic Tape
June 27, 2024
A quick experiment evolves (er, devolves) into a borderline documentary…on the subject of cleaning mold off an old ¾” “U-Matic” videotape. And they say OA isn’t mainstream…
0x285 - Archive Thrifting #30: Wet Fireworks
July 4, 2024
Spend the 4th of July the American way…shopping for junk.
0x286 - Ben's Junk: A Tower of Vidicraft
July 11, 2024
(with apologies to Frank Sinatra) …’cause it’s Vidicraft, wicked Vidicraft. And, although I know it’s strictly taboo…
0x287 - Quasar Great Time Machine (Round 2?)
August 1, 2024
After making the Great Time Machine episodes in 2023, I was offered another unit in exchange for transferring some tapes. I may not have gotten the better part of that deal.
0x288 - Ben's Junk: My First DVD's
August 8, 2024
Something I never thought I’d have…warm, gooey nostalgia for the Y2K era.
0x289 - Ben's Junk: JamC@m Digital Camera
August 15, 2024
A trip back to the late-90’s. Of course, that means being unnecessarily EXTREEEEME!!!! (insert dorky camera zoom)
0x290 - Archive Thrifting #31: Summer's End
August 22, 2024
The little brats are finally back in school. Let’s go thrifting…
0x291 - More Fun With Moldy U-Matic Tapes
September 5, 2024
Mold®: Now available in yellow and brown!
0x292 - Ben's Junk: :CueCat Barcode Scanner
September 12, 2024
Truly from the audiovisual litterbox, an impractical solution to a problem that didn’t/doesn’t exist. Or, Benny-boy officially becomes a cat herder...and hoarder.
0x293 - Ben's Junk: Sencore "Little Huey" Test Pattern Generator
September 19, 2024
A color bar generator called “Little HUEy”. No, it’s not a Norm MacDonald joke…I think.
0x294 - Ben's Junk: Casio CMD-10 watch
October 10, 2024
Keep losing that remote control? Perhaps there’s just too many gosh-darn buttons? We’ve got a (borderline-toy) solution for you!
0x295 - Ben's Junk: Laserviews Laserdisc Magazines
October 17, 2024
I set out to discuss laserdiscs and wound up on a tear about various movies. Ain’t that always the way?
0x296 - Archive Thrifting #32: Halloween Hootenanny
October 24, 2024
Grab yer pardner, do-si-do…and go thrifting with ol’ Benny-boy!
0x297 - Halloween Special 2023 (Season of the Wince) (Commentary)
October 28, 2024
Discussing the great swindle that is my little parody of “Halloween III”…and mustaches.
0x298 - Ben's Junk: Realistic (Radio Shack) Astronaut 8 Radio
November 9, 2024
A radio that’ll send you into outer space…8 times!
0x299 - Ben's Junk: Down Beat Magazine (10/23/1975)
November 14, 2024
An Up Beat (by my standards) look at an issue of Down Beat magazine. Now, excuse me while I clap out-of-rhythm…
0x300 - Ben’s Junk: Thanksgiving Traditions (and not-so-traditions)
November 21, 2024
You can get anything you want at Benny-boy’s (non-existent) Restaurant…
0x301 - Ben’s Junk: VHS is Life Mold Cleaning Rig REDUX
December 5, 2024
A product so nice, I had to review it twice…
0x302 - Archive Thrifting #33: Christmas Clutter
December 12, 2024
Out in the stores there’s so much clutter/Let’s listen to Benny-boy groan and mutter…
0x303 - Ben’s Junk: Epiphone ED-100NS Acoustic Guitar
December 26, 2024
My first steel string acoustic guitar…which was even cheaper than the ones Esteban was hawking on TV at the time.
0x304 - Ben’s (Failed) Gimmick CD (A Rant)
January 9, 2025
The OA soundtrack album was SUPPOSED to be the most tricked-out CD of all time…of course, things didn’t pan out. And, yes, this may very well be the geekiest, most jargon-heavy discussion I’ve ever given.
Oddity Archive: All seasons
S0: Specials
304 Episode s
S1: Season 1
26 Episode s
S2: Season 2
26 Episode s
S3: Season 3
26 Episode s
S4: Season 4
24 Episode s
S5: Season 5
24 Episode s
S6: Season 6
25 Episode s
S7: Season 7
22 Episode s
S8: Season 8
24 Episode s
S9: Season 9
23 Episode s
S10: Season 10
22 Episode s
S11: Season 11
23 Episode s
S12: Season 12
16 Episode s
S13: Season 13
6 Episode s